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Old 09-04-2009, 05:25 PM   #280
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In what round I take this guy I don't know, but the guy is Salvador Dali. He was a visual artist from Spain.


(that's not him, that's a painting called "Persistence of Time")

I don't claim to know much about art or really much about Dali but I always thought he was cool. When I was a kid a buddy of mine's parents had a print of that painting on the wall. I thought it was an original. Like they bought it from the artist, or someone they knew painted it or something like that. I thought it was the craziest thing. I was told who painted it and I didn't have a clue who that was. I'll tell you, I was sure confused when he died and they showed that painting on the news. I said "hey, Buddy's parents have a painting by that guy on the wall. It must have cost a lot of money, if he's famous enough to be on the news". It was then explained to me that friend's parents most likely didn't have the original on the wall. I said "I don't know, Buddy's dad drives a pretty nice car" but that didn't get me anywhere.

Now that's not very informative, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

There's a Dali museum in Figueres, Spain. I've never been there but it sure looks spiffy in the pictures. There are a lot of eggs on the roof.
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